Constantia Constantinou, director of the Stephen B. Luce Library at State University of New York’s Maritime College in Throggs Neck, New York, was named Distinguished Librarian by the SUNY board of trustees. She is only the fourth person to ever received the designation in the SUNY system. Constantinou has been director of the Luce Library since 2001.
As a Fulbright Scholar to Cyprus, Constantinou was instrumental in bringing together the Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot academic communities together to establish the Cyprus National Library Consortium. Constantinou holds a bachelor’s degree and two master’s degrees from Queens College of the City University of New York.